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Nursing School gets $50,000
Are campus police tow—happy?
Black Alliance gets results
Was thesis show tedious?
Thursday, February 13, 1986 @hg (ffaralfman *• taae ..m «-«. . .... ," ' " " '" ■■ ■■ ■ — , __
"The Student Voice ofUNCG" Volume LXV, Number tt
_i~
Senate opposes
apartheid stand
Current Con&.-ns Committee criticized
for not takinq a stronger position
Trrm Bp—lri— ef TVs CwpMc If —t i gtrftar licks at last wnt'i concert
Area bands apply 'First Aid'for freedom
By DONNA BEASLEY
UNCG's Citizens Against Ceo-sorship
last week co-spomored a
benefit concert, "First Aid, "pro-testing
the new obscenity law.
The event was held on Feb. 6 at
the National Guard Armory in
Greensboro. Funds from "First
Aid" will go to CAC and the
North Carolina Civil Liberties
Union.
A Greensboro-baaed band, The
Graphic, and Silver Plate Pro-ductions
helped to organise the
concert. Treva Spontaine, The
Graphic's lead vocalist, said their
involvement was a "gut reac-tion"
to the 1986 law. "We
couldn't let this go on in ourstate,
because it's a great place to live,"
she explained, "As srtists
ourselves, we don't want to be af-fected
by this alter on down the
road."
The Graphic's producer, Bill
Honeycutt, attended the first
CAC meeting and discovered
they had similar ideas about a
fund raiser. Weeks of planning,
setting a date when all the bands
could play, and problems with
finding a location were ail worth
it, asserted Spontaine. "We've
got a lot of press and now
hopefully people will be aware
and do something."
Along with The Graphic, par-ticipating
bands included Quiet
Game, The Right Profile, Tor-nado,
The Othermothers, and
Middle Finger. Unscheduled
musician, George Singleton, also
appeared.
Between performances local
speakers took the stage to ex-press
their discontent with the
obscenity law. Dr. Thomas Ted
ford, a UNCG communications
professor, told the audience he
was forced to omit one of his lec-tures
as a result of the revised
1986 law which does not protect
educational material. He com-pared
censorship to Big Brother
in George Orwell's mm. "In
Guilford County, government is
our persecution. This smells of
Fascism and we need to put a
stop to it," he insisted.
"We are not talking about
dissemination of material to
children or using them in por-nography,
" Tedford clarified.
He objected to the law's violation
of the adult citizens' consitu-tional
rights.
Similar reactions were voiced
by Greensboro writer, Keith Fer-ret,
George Gardner, and Tom
Loflin, both associated with the
NCCLU.
Nearly 300 people attended
"First Aid," according to Dan
Pearson, president of CAC. Ad-ditional
funds were generated
from advance ticket sales, T-shirt
sales, and concessions. Proceeds
received by CAC will be used to
pay for literature production
costs and possibly to pay a future
speaker, such as a senator,
speculated Pearson. "Basically
all our money is spent on public
awareness," he added.
CAC plans a Teach-in for Feb.
18 at 7:30 p.m. and mini-courses
later in the semester to be taught
by several authorities including
Dr. Tedford.
Mid-East expert says
'peace is possible'
By DAR1USH SHAFAGH
War has been prevalent in the
Middle-East since Biblical times.
Life to many people in those
countries has meant survival of
day to day bloodshed and
violence. The idea of peace has
been looked upon with ridicule
until the advent of optimists such
as Professor Abdul Aziz Said.
Said, professor of International
Relations at the American
University in Washington, D.C.,
gave a lecture Monday night in
Cone Ballroom, sponsored by the
Political Awareness Club on
"Peace is Possible in the Middle-
East."
Said began talking about a
great deal of factual information
to familiarize the audience more
with the present situation and
concluded with his theories on
how to alleviate the problem.
After asserting that "Peace can-not
be won at the expense of
others," Said talked about some
of the collossal expenditures on
weapons. In the past decade, $46
billion have been spent on
weapons in the Middle East,
3-3.5 million people have been in-jured
and an additional 300-700
thousand people have died in the
last decade, due to Mid-East
violence. On the topic of ter-rorism,
Said stated that ter-rorism
occurs because there are
grievances which the interna-tional
system is unable to ad-dress.
Deterrence has certainly
not stopped terrorism, therefore,
according to Said, the U.S. needs
to change its policy and should
take the initiative work with the
UN and form a commission to
deal with these grievances. Also,
there should be an international
court of justice to deal with inter-national
terrorism. Although
Said would like to see the super-powers
pull out of the Mid-East
completely, he feels that the U.S.
needs to at least change its at-titude
and cooperate with both
the Arab World and Israel. The
U.S. needs to stop taking sides,
exploiting Israel, and stop sup-plying
(sometimes both sides)
with weapons. It's major obstacle
in the peace-process, said Said, is
the PLO. The Palestinians must
consider a non-violent path.
What prevents them from
negotiating with anybody is not
a question of fear, but of securi-ty.
What would they gain out of
a peace process? If they don't
gain anything from it, they won't
cooperate because they have
nothing to lose in the first place.
Said stressed that one of the ma
jor ingredients for a peace-procees
is giving the Palestinian
a slate.
Trying to be as objective as
possible, Professor Said pointed
out that the Arab World needs to
change some of iu attitudes as
(Set Said, pap I)
By DAR1USH SHAFAGH
The student senate Tuesday
night took a strong stand against
the apartheid resolution approv-ed
by the Current Concerns
Committee, saying it didn't con-demn
apartheid strongly enough.
Most of the senators express-ed
more concern with the moral
aspects of divestment than its
business aspects. They said the
committee's decision to invest in
companies which voiced support
for the Sullivan Principles did not
oppose apartheid forcefully
enough because the Sullivan
Principles are ineffective.
One reason for that, they said,
is that the U.S. does not have
enough money invested in South
Africa to give it the necessary
political leverage to achieve
change.
According to one senator, less
than one percent of the
employees in companies suppor-ting
the Sullivan Principals in the
white-minority ruled country are
black, so the principles would af-fect
a very small group of people.
Another senator added, "We
can't do something good by
perpetuating something bad.
This method of stopping apar
theid seems very questionable."
Senator Mike Smith favored a
stronger resolution on grounds
that our investments would be
lost if civil war broke out in
South Africa. After long debate,
the senate called for a new
resolution supporting full
divestment.
SG President Mike Stewart,
met with the AIDS task-force
last week and reported on the
meeting. He stressed that the
epidemic i* serious and that the
number cases will increase in the
next few years. Currently, I to
2 million people in the U.S. carry
the AIDS virus, 70-90 percent of
which show no symptoms.
Stewart said AIDS is not a gay
disease. (Jay people are just un-fortunate
enough to acquire
AIDS more easily than others
because of their sexual behavior,
he said. The university's concern
is to educate the student-body on
AIDS in order to modify sexual
behavior.
In other news, the Academic
Cabinet met last Wednesday and
is considering moving the univer-sity
from Division III to Division
II athletics. The main effect
would be an improvement in ap-plication
rates. However, the
changeover requires an increase
in the Student Activity Fee
Budget of $111,000, which would
mean an individual increase from
$20 to $50.
The ultimate goal of the
cabinet is to move the school all
the way up to Division I athletics.
Finally, the traffic committee
reported that UNCG is supposed
to become a pedestrian campus
and that parking will be allowed
on the outskirts of campus.
Although 600 new spares are
currently being added to campus,
there would be a serious problem
with moving in and out of
dormitories.
Mike Stewart felt that the idea
of a pedestrian campus needs to
be re-evaluated. Information on
these proposed changes if
available in the Mossmann
Building and in the Reserve
Room in the library.
Macbeth: Timeless
murder mystery
By JOHN ASHTON
Ellen Bell as Macbeth and Lady Macbeth
Macbeth, considered Shakespear's cursed play will be performed
at the Aycock Auditorium Feb. 19-23. The supposed ill-luck surroun-ding
the performance of the play has led many actors refer to it as
The Scottish Play' rather than Macbeth.
Director, John Sterling Arnold, teaches on campus. He received
his BFA at Virginia Commonwealth and is Masters degree at Wayne
State University in Detroit. He's been in over 50 Shakespearean pro-ductions.
This will be his eighth rendezvous withAYacostA. He has both
acted in and directed this play.
Arnold directa this show as a murder mystery. He it was different
from any concepts he has dealt with before. The last time he directed
Macbeth the set was like a spider web with the witches acting like
spiders. This concept is entirely different than the spider one. The
witches will be animalistic. Macbeth will deal with a militristic socie-ty.
Dance has been incorporated into the play and the soliliquies have
become part of the action rather than the actor being alone on stage.
Some characters have been removed, while other remaining bit parts
have absorbed the characters' lines.
The first banquet, Duncan's will be held on-stage rather than off-stage
in the usual manner.
Arnold added that his new concept will start in modern day 1986,
in Inverness Castle, which has been converted to s museum. The
scrub women in the museum become the witches. Then through
special effects, the sudience will be transported backwards or for-wards
through time, the audience is the interpreter. Rod Serling
could identify with his version ofMaebeth if it were done for The
Twilight Zone.
Arnold thought, " Wouldn't it be neat if it was done in a house
of wax." This was the beginning of the idea. Its gone through some
changes since then, but it should be a visually spectacular show to see.
Helping with the visual aspect of the play is Merideth Taylor, a
teacher of the movement training program for actors at Indiana
University. She also teaches stage combat, period styles, historical
dances, movement characterizations, and mask work. She was hired
to choreograph the fight scenes for Macbeth.
(See Macbeth, page S)

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Nursing School gets $50,000
Are campus police tow—happy?
Black Alliance gets results
Was thesis show tedious?
Thursday, February 13, 1986 @hg (ffaralfman *• taae ..m «-«. . .... ," ' " " '" ■■ ■■ ■ — , __
"The Student Voice ofUNCG" Volume LXV, Number tt
_i~
Senate opposes
apartheid stand
Current Con&.-ns Committee criticized
for not takinq a stronger position
Trrm Bp—lri— ef TVs CwpMc If —t i gtrftar licks at last wnt'i concert
Area bands apply 'First Aid'for freedom
By DONNA BEASLEY
UNCG's Citizens Against Ceo-sorship
last week co-spomored a
benefit concert, "First Aid, "pro-testing
the new obscenity law.
The event was held on Feb. 6 at
the National Guard Armory in
Greensboro. Funds from "First
Aid" will go to CAC and the
North Carolina Civil Liberties
Union.
A Greensboro-baaed band, The
Graphic, and Silver Plate Pro-ductions
helped to organise the
concert. Treva Spontaine, The
Graphic's lead vocalist, said their
involvement was a "gut reac-tion"
to the 1986 law. "We
couldn't let this go on in ourstate,
because it's a great place to live,"
she explained, "As srtists
ourselves, we don't want to be af-fected
by this alter on down the
road."
The Graphic's producer, Bill
Honeycutt, attended the first
CAC meeting and discovered
they had similar ideas about a
fund raiser. Weeks of planning,
setting a date when all the bands
could play, and problems with
finding a location were ail worth
it, asserted Spontaine. "We've
got a lot of press and now
hopefully people will be aware
and do something."
Along with The Graphic, par-ticipating
bands included Quiet
Game, The Right Profile, Tor-nado,
The Othermothers, and
Middle Finger. Unscheduled
musician, George Singleton, also
appeared.
Between performances local
speakers took the stage to ex-press
their discontent with the
obscenity law. Dr. Thomas Ted
ford, a UNCG communications
professor, told the audience he
was forced to omit one of his lec-tures
as a result of the revised
1986 law which does not protect
educational material. He com-pared
censorship to Big Brother
in George Orwell's mm. "In
Guilford County, government is
our persecution. This smells of
Fascism and we need to put a
stop to it," he insisted.
"We are not talking about
dissemination of material to
children or using them in por-nography,
" Tedford clarified.
He objected to the law's violation
of the adult citizens' consitu-tional
rights.
Similar reactions were voiced
by Greensboro writer, Keith Fer-ret,
George Gardner, and Tom
Loflin, both associated with the
NCCLU.
Nearly 300 people attended
"First Aid," according to Dan
Pearson, president of CAC. Ad-ditional
funds were generated
from advance ticket sales, T-shirt
sales, and concessions. Proceeds
received by CAC will be used to
pay for literature production
costs and possibly to pay a future
speaker, such as a senator,
speculated Pearson. "Basically
all our money is spent on public
awareness," he added.
CAC plans a Teach-in for Feb.
18 at 7:30 p.m. and mini-courses
later in the semester to be taught
by several authorities including
Dr. Tedford.
Mid-East expert says
'peace is possible'
By DAR1USH SHAFAGH
War has been prevalent in the
Middle-East since Biblical times.
Life to many people in those
countries has meant survival of
day to day bloodshed and
violence. The idea of peace has
been looked upon with ridicule
until the advent of optimists such
as Professor Abdul Aziz Said.
Said, professor of International
Relations at the American
University in Washington, D.C.,
gave a lecture Monday night in
Cone Ballroom, sponsored by the
Political Awareness Club on
"Peace is Possible in the Middle-
East."
Said began talking about a
great deal of factual information
to familiarize the audience more
with the present situation and
concluded with his theories on
how to alleviate the problem.
After asserting that "Peace can-not
be won at the expense of
others," Said talked about some
of the collossal expenditures on
weapons. In the past decade, $46
billion have been spent on
weapons in the Middle East,
3-3.5 million people have been in-jured
and an additional 300-700
thousand people have died in the
last decade, due to Mid-East
violence. On the topic of ter-rorism,
Said stated that ter-rorism
occurs because there are
grievances which the interna-tional
system is unable to ad-dress.
Deterrence has certainly
not stopped terrorism, therefore,
according to Said, the U.S. needs
to change its policy and should
take the initiative work with the
UN and form a commission to
deal with these grievances. Also,
there should be an international
court of justice to deal with inter-national
terrorism. Although
Said would like to see the super-powers
pull out of the Mid-East
completely, he feels that the U.S.
needs to at least change its at-titude
and cooperate with both
the Arab World and Israel. The
U.S. needs to stop taking sides,
exploiting Israel, and stop sup-plying
(sometimes both sides)
with weapons. It's major obstacle
in the peace-process, said Said, is
the PLO. The Palestinians must
consider a non-violent path.
What prevents them from
negotiating with anybody is not
a question of fear, but of securi-ty.
What would they gain out of
a peace process? If they don't
gain anything from it, they won't
cooperate because they have
nothing to lose in the first place.
Said stressed that one of the ma
jor ingredients for a peace-procees
is giving the Palestinian
a slate.
Trying to be as objective as
possible, Professor Said pointed
out that the Arab World needs to
change some of iu attitudes as
(Set Said, pap I)
By DAR1USH SHAFAGH
The student senate Tuesday
night took a strong stand against
the apartheid resolution approv-ed
by the Current Concerns
Committee, saying it didn't con-demn
apartheid strongly enough.
Most of the senators express-ed
more concern with the moral
aspects of divestment than its
business aspects. They said the
committee's decision to invest in
companies which voiced support
for the Sullivan Principles did not
oppose apartheid forcefully
enough because the Sullivan
Principles are ineffective.
One reason for that, they said,
is that the U.S. does not have
enough money invested in South
Africa to give it the necessary
political leverage to achieve
change.
According to one senator, less
than one percent of the
employees in companies suppor-ting
the Sullivan Principals in the
white-minority ruled country are
black, so the principles would af-fect
a very small group of people.
Another senator added, "We
can't do something good by
perpetuating something bad.
This method of stopping apar
theid seems very questionable."
Senator Mike Smith favored a
stronger resolution on grounds
that our investments would be
lost if civil war broke out in
South Africa. After long debate,
the senate called for a new
resolution supporting full
divestment.
SG President Mike Stewart,
met with the AIDS task-force
last week and reported on the
meeting. He stressed that the
epidemic i* serious and that the
number cases will increase in the
next few years. Currently, I to
2 million people in the U.S. carry
the AIDS virus, 70-90 percent of
which show no symptoms.
Stewart said AIDS is not a gay
disease. (Jay people are just un-fortunate
enough to acquire
AIDS more easily than others
because of their sexual behavior,
he said. The university's concern
is to educate the student-body on
AIDS in order to modify sexual
behavior.
In other news, the Academic
Cabinet met last Wednesday and
is considering moving the univer-sity
from Division III to Division
II athletics. The main effect
would be an improvement in ap-plication
rates. However, the
changeover requires an increase
in the Student Activity Fee
Budget of $111,000, which would
mean an individual increase from
$20 to $50.
The ultimate goal of the
cabinet is to move the school all
the way up to Division I athletics.
Finally, the traffic committee
reported that UNCG is supposed
to become a pedestrian campus
and that parking will be allowed
on the outskirts of campus.
Although 600 new spares are
currently being added to campus,
there would be a serious problem
with moving in and out of
dormitories.
Mike Stewart felt that the idea
of a pedestrian campus needs to
be re-evaluated. Information on
these proposed changes if
available in the Mossmann
Building and in the Reserve
Room in the library.
Macbeth: Timeless
murder mystery
By JOHN ASHTON
Ellen Bell as Macbeth and Lady Macbeth
Macbeth, considered Shakespear's cursed play will be performed
at the Aycock Auditorium Feb. 19-23. The supposed ill-luck surroun-ding
the performance of the play has led many actors refer to it as
The Scottish Play' rather than Macbeth.
Director, John Sterling Arnold, teaches on campus. He received
his BFA at Virginia Commonwealth and is Masters degree at Wayne
State University in Detroit. He's been in over 50 Shakespearean pro-ductions.
This will be his eighth rendezvous withAYacostA. He has both
acted in and directed this play.
Arnold directa this show as a murder mystery. He it was different
from any concepts he has dealt with before. The last time he directed
Macbeth the set was like a spider web with the witches acting like
spiders. This concept is entirely different than the spider one. The
witches will be animalistic. Macbeth will deal with a militristic socie-ty.
Dance has been incorporated into the play and the soliliquies have
become part of the action rather than the actor being alone on stage.
Some characters have been removed, while other remaining bit parts
have absorbed the characters' lines.
The first banquet, Duncan's will be held on-stage rather than off-stage
in the usual manner.
Arnold added that his new concept will start in modern day 1986,
in Inverness Castle, which has been converted to s museum. The
scrub women in the museum become the witches. Then through
special effects, the sudience will be transported backwards or for-wards
through time, the audience is the interpreter. Rod Serling
could identify with his version ofMaebeth if it were done for The
Twilight Zone.
Arnold thought, " Wouldn't it be neat if it was done in a house
of wax." This was the beginning of the idea. Its gone through some
changes since then, but it should be a visually spectacular show to see.
Helping with the visual aspect of the play is Merideth Taylor, a
teacher of the movement training program for actors at Indiana
University. She also teaches stage combat, period styles, historical
dances, movement characterizations, and mask work. She was hired
to choreograph the fight scenes for Macbeth.
(See Macbeth, page S)